That’s right. I was a Disney nerd for a couple days.
Two weeks away and I gotta tell you, it was awesome. 6 days at the beach, four at theme parks, and two visiting my parents. We all had a great time on the best vacation we’ve had in years. The driving was a bitch, but that was a small price to pay for the time we had.
Unflappable
Morikawa was cool as a cucumber down the stretch as he won the British Open. I was driving and listened on the radio as Banjos complained that it was pointless to listen to sports. I disagree, although she did have a point about the guys from the tower whispering the call even though they were nowhere remotely close to the players. The Suns blew a golden opportunity, and we will see if it ultimately costs them tomorrow night, as it seems the NBA is all about two off days between games all of the sudden. The Olympics is gonna be a covid shitshow even without spectators. And college football is a mere 44 days away, in case any of you needed a reminder. And that’s sports.
Big birthdays today are: inventor and protector of the weak Samuel Colt, painter Edger Degas, psychopath Lizzie Borden, doctor and hospital founder Charles Horace Mayo, animator Max Fleischer, baseball player Phil Cavarretta, tennis great Ilie Nastase, guitar great Brian May, actor Benedict Cumberbatch, and pitcher/outfielder Rick Ankiel.
That list was a bit weak. SO let’s get on to…the links!
CNN working that spin machine overtime. All is well, people.. Remain calm. REMAAAAAIIINNN CAAAAAALM!!!!!!
Pretty much all the news.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics. Are the “major” media outlets anything more than mouthpieces of the government fearmongers at this point? Have they always been, and I just didn’t really pay that much attention until the “pandemic”?
And speaking of which… it looks like the Executive Branch is going all-in on snuffing out the first amendment. But don’t worry, they’re outsourcing it to “private companies”. Private companies who all crave access to and do business with the government., mind you. Which, in my opinion, makes all this censorship a de facto violation of our rights.
These grandstanders are really setting a great example, aren’t they? First they break state law, then they violate federal “law”, then they parade around and catch covid. Well, they claim to have caught it. I honestly won’t believe them until they show their test results publicly. Also, if they actually do have it, this just further proves that these aren’t really vaccines at all.
More dangerous than being inclusive, I guess.
TPUSA are about as stupid as you can get. So much for a “big tent”. Dumbasses.
Chicago continues its downward spiral. Please get out of there if you can. And yes, Swissy, this means you.
Cool. Now how does it taste? Just kidding. I’ve eaten enough seafood in the last two weeks to be good for a couple months.
And in the spirit of keeping with a theme, I give you this. OK, technically its not seafood. But it is a lobster. And it’s one weird little bastard. What, is Texas trying to catch up with Australia for shit that can fuck you up?
Coming in hot with my first song in two weeks. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
Now get out there and have a great week, friends. It’s good to be back.
suh’ home-team
whaddup doh
“We only have two choices, we are either going to get vaccinated and end the pandemic or we are going to accept death, a lot of it, this surge and another surge and possibly another variant,”
For certain values of “a lot.”
There is a third option: treatment.
But we’re supposed to bury our heads in the sand about that one.
Treatment means that by law the emergency vax authorization will be pulled in the US so that’s just not going to happen, formally at least. It’s a damn travesty but here we are.
I notice they aren’t saying shit about natural immunity. It’s as if it doesn’t even exist.
This virus is the strangest one ever. It’s as if nothing through the entire history of mankind and viruses can compare.
Or, it’s as if these people are doing anything they can to control the narrative because if people knew the truth, they’d be erecting gibbets outside every government office in the country.
A pandemic of teenage mutants?
That’s how you wind up with a teenage wasteland!
And turtles named after the greats.
What happened to the fuckwads that used to tell us “My body, my choice!” and then accused anyone saying otherwise of being fucking tyrannical douchebags?
Do you want people to die??
Oh, wait.
They contracted the vid; apparently if it doesn’t kill you it fries your brain. I’m applying for a research grant to study this phenomenon.
Primary conclusion: Needs further study and funding, sweet sweet funding.
Enough to afford some serious blow & Winston’s mom?
If you have the serious blow, the other one comes free.
Phrasing.
CNN working that spin machine overtime.
Wow. Talk about weak tea.
C’mon. Everyone who gets on the bus saves 6 cents!
“Risk of not getting vaccinated…”
Yeah – that’s not how you access risk. If they were honest (heh), they’d do an investigation into vaccine injuries and deaths and compare them to covid illnesses and deaths. What would come out is the reality that the vaccine is only worth it for the elderly and health impaired.
Do you mean covid deaths or “deaths with covid”? Because there’s a whole bunch of one and very little of the other.
Yep or with other respiratory problems, pneumonia (old fashioned?) COPD or emphysema as we used to call it.
An average of four co-morbidities. Four.
Heh.
???
They’re becoming increasingly shrill and threatening. They’re going to run headlong into a lot of people who are not going to budge on this issue.
Greece and France just did.
Of the infected lawmakers, all of whom are fully vaccinated, only one is experiencing mild symptoms, caucus director Phillip Martin said Sunday.
Horrific.
All common cold symptoms are now covid. Panic!
*runs around room screaming*
I understand that vaccines don’t actually prevent infection, but allow you to mount a vigorous defense and quickly eradicate a virus. Also vaccines should prevent you from becoming infectious to others due to the above vigorous immune response.
Assuming the above statements are correct, how can 10% of a fully vaccinated population get COVID from a 3 hour plane ride?
This only then makes sense if you are constantly testing said population for any significant viral load. Why would the Texas lawmakers get tested again if they were all vaccinated, out of an abundance of caution?
The whole thing seems like a stunt. The only truth is we can’t trust anything they tell us. Shit’s fucked yo.
Given that the testing is at best 95% accurate, if you take the test enough times you’re gonna fail.
If you randomly check 25 people there is a 70% chance someone in that population will be diagnosed incorrectly.
That’s why I said I don’t believe them.
The odds of them even needing a test are virtually nil. So why did they get tested? I could see them maybe getting tested before meeting with Harris. But if that was the reason, they’d have waited for the results before letting them see her.
My guess: they’re lying about either having it or being vaccinated.
“Why would the Texas lawmakers get tested again if they were all vaccinated”
It’s simple: they don’t trust the vaccine.
And that is the motivation behind insisting that everyone get “vaccinated” – they don’t want time to show them to be such fools. Straight-up vanity. They simply can’t allow themselves to be proven to be fools by those who aren’t in this together.
It’s the exact same shit with Saddam’s WMD’s. He didn’t actually have any (and they knew so) but we had to waste trillions of dollars and sacrifice thousands of people to death or dismemberment to protect the egos of our precious “leaders”.
“…if you are constantly testing said population for any
significantviral load”PCR testing is still going on with insane amounts of cycles from what I read, so even the vaccinated will still pop up as positive. Maybe RC has more information on that one though.
Around here, testing has mostly vanished. Pretty sure the only testing now, is people who are required to get them or people who go to the hospital. If you’re the hyper paranoid type, you can pay (through the nose, LOL) to get one. Those super sized testing sites are all gone.
Yeah the testing sites are gone, but I think our CVS and Walgreens are still rolling the testing for free*
*If you say you have insurance, they will bill them of course.
Our testing site is gone now too, but I can have all the free Fed-ex test kits I want. I’m just done with it.
My understanding is the the CDC is no longer counting COVID tests in people who were vaccinated.
Which if true, is maddening.
What is with all the butt shots in Chicago?
Aiming center-of-mass?
Urban aiming.
::shrug::
I don’t know. But this stood out in that Chicago article:
Six people, including four teenage girls — the youngest of them 12 — were injured in a mass shooting late Saturday on the West Side.
Do journalists even know what a teenager is?
“Too old.”
-OMWC
Either “biggest target” or “that’s where most people in Chicago keep their heads, so of course…”
Welcome back sloop. Hello Glibs! Happy Monday!
I consider the Monday links to be the most essential part of my new workweek. I appreciate it.
Inquiring minds want to know…
Did the mouse house give you PTSD?
Seeing as how I’m not sure what you’re talking about I’m going to go with yes. So terrible I blocked out all memory of that.
Oh you’re talking to sloopy. I’m sure he had a good time.
Mouse house (either adorable or twee): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dpnENSdpW3A
Nah. It was quite fun. Universal was better. But the Magic Kingdom was ok. Animal Kingdom was also a good time, but mostly because I drank about 7-8 beers and didn’t give a fuck by late afternoon.
Nice. Did you do Islands of Adventure (is it still called that?). I wonder if the Spiderman ride holds up. It was mindblowing in 2006.
We did. It was a blast, but no Spider-Man ride for us. It was a kids day, so we did a lot of the less intense stuff.
We’re going to do an adult trip to six flags soon and ride all the big fun shit.
Euphemism?
Sounds like you didn’t hit the Kraken?
Horror story
An NPR analysis of social media data found that over the past year, stories published by the site Shapiro founded, The Daily Wire, received more likes, shares and comments on Facebook than any other news publisher by a wide margin.
Even legacy news organizations that have broken major stories or produced groundbreaking investigative work don’t come anywhere close.
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“There’s a demand amongst certain subsets of the public for outrage politics,” said Jaime Settle, the director of the Social Networks and Political Psychology Lab at The College of William & Mary in Virginia. “This happens on both the left and the right. But the people who do this on the right have just found a lot more successful ways of doing it.”
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While other media publications have seen their engagement numbers on Facebook fall off this year, The Daily Wire has stayed fairly constant, according to NPR’s analysis.
“I’m depressed by it, but I’m not that surprised,” said Settle. “This has everything to do with the psychology of news consumers and the broader issues with polarization in American culture.”
The articles The Daily Wire publishes don’t normally include falsehoods (with some exceptions), and the site says it is committed to “truthful, accurate and ethical reporting.”
But as Settle explains, by only covering specific stories that bolster the conservative agenda (like negative stories about socialist countries, and polarizing stories about race and sexuality issues) and only including certain facts, readers still come away from The Daily Wire’s content with the impression that Republican politicians can do little wrong and cancel culture is among the nation’s greatest threats.
Another completely unselfaware “media expert” tells NPR scary campfire tales about the demise of legitimate news.
Oh, agony!
“They’re telling the truth. But not the truth we approve of. Therefore they’re evil.
We’re gonna take a quick break and when we come back, we’re gonna take a deep dive into the best education system in the Americas: Cuba’s. And then more breaking news on the attempted coup. This is NPR.”
The only truth is whatever narrative help[s the marxist totalitarians..
I highly recommend the Dark Horse podcast on this COVID vaccine bullshit. It’s mind blowing how bad the suppression of information is.
I like Brett and Heather, I’ll check it out. It’s amazing how such sensible, liberal, nominally Democrat people can become vilified in these trying times.
I’ll second this. His interview with Tess Lawrie this weekend was outstanding.
And enraging.
I notice they aren’t saying shit about natural immunity. It’s as if it doesn’t even exist.
This virus is the strangest one ever. It’s as if nothing through the entire history of mankind and viruses can compare.
Exactly. For a bunch of “experts” they don’t seem to know or care much about the body of knowledge accumulated over the past three or four centuries.
They know and they care. That’s why they’re vilifying anybody that discusses it in a way that compares it historically to other viruses. Because it undermines everything they’re ramming down our throats.
And this is the thing that is most disconcerting to me: after this display of absolute stupidity by the expert classes, why are more people not waking up to the fact that our expert class is not just fucking inept, but dangerous and in too many cases downright evil.
I hope they’re evil. Because if they are stupid then we are probably even worse off. I’ll take my chances against intelligent evil over virtuous stupid.
Stupid evil isn’t an option?
Actually, this is what I would put my money on.
It has always been a competition between Evil but Stupid(D) vs Stupid but Evil(R).
If you’re too stupid to know you’re evil you fall into my latter category.
If you’re too stupid to know you’re evil , you ain’t virtuous.
Plenty of people are willing to suspend disbelief if it advances an agenda.
Welcome back Sloopy. Nice pic.
Land Lobster from Hell sounds like a solid B-movie.
Statistics show the stark risks of not getting vaccinated against COVID-19
Correct me if I’m wrong, but that would require some sort of honest assessment of the likelihood of catching the damn snifflecooties to begin with. Followed by an honest breakdown of severity of symptoms.
“Statistics show the stark risks ”
99.85% of people who tested positive for it recovered. Stark.
A stark case in point: During June, every person who died of COVID-19 in Maryland was unvaccinated, according to a spokesperson for the governor’s office. There were 130 people who died of COVID-19 in Maryland in June, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
OH
MY
GOD!!!!!!!
Now tell me how many unvaccinated people did not get sick at all.
“according to a spokesperson”
That’s some great journalisming there.
Not to mention they died with covid, not from covid. And as someone mentioned upthread…an average of four comorbidities.
Regardless. 130 people… in the state of Maryland.
For reference, about 4,000 people die per month in Maryland during the summer.
Everyone in Maryland dies during the summer.
That’s 3.25% of the total deaths.
That would put drug overdoses at roughly double the rate and heart disease at 7.5X the rate.
That’s a pretty nice looking 48 — especially considering the lifestyle.
Welcome back, Sloop!
I’m glad you and the girls had such a good time! Too bad you had to come back to the shit show.
What the fuck is the deal with the vaccine panic? I thought it was just a money grab, but these unhinged fucks are getting hysterical. Let’s see, they granted EUAs for a bunch of vaccine technologies that have never been deployed, fully tested or even assessed for safety. They completely ignored the success that docs around the world had with Ivermectin and other existing meds. Then shut down any discussion of these things. It’s almost as if they are sensing that they have completely failed.
Or are they imagining the sound of woodchippers?
Nice song. Here’s another.
Have a great day everyone!
I bet I haven’t heard that song in 20 years. Thank you.
“Shut the fuck up!” they explained.
Internet feedback effect seems to a thing. It’s turning people’s brains to mush.
Brandi Love always brings the big, milfy tent.
An over-the-hill whore desperate for attention… The perfect spokesperson for Republican “conservatives”.
Ayup!
I hold nothing against her (mainly because she’s in Florida, if she were out here, I might have a chance to hold something against her) she’s just a porn star who’s conservative. These people should be proclaiming, “look! Even the porn people are on our side!” Instead, they are clutching their pearls that their kids might walk near a person who has done things they disapprove of. Fuck the parents and the organizers.
I believe part if the complaint was her pushing her website – the home page if which includes photos of her snatch. I can see how this doesn’t please parents. At best, its pretty low class and she should put a firewall between her business and politics.
Growing up in Tulsa, OU was the only professional sports team we had.
And the parties confirmed my belief the college football is the best spectator sport.
The girlfriend is interested in jumping onto the Browns bandwagon this year. She was even asking about going to practices.
Its tough to be a Bengals fan. I can only imagine how you people must feel.
She either really likes you or hates herself.
Why not both?
We do live around the corner from where the practice facilities are, so I’m guessing that has some bearing as well. I bike by it on a regular basis (as it’s close to one of the main routes I ride).
Phrasing?
jumping onto the Browns bandwagon
This sounds like a euphemism for pegging.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/18/what-is-pegasus-spyware-and-how-does-it-hack-phones
Emphasis added.
(((They))) are coming for your dick pics.
They are going to need a bigger hacking program then….
Android, the operating system that puts the same emphasis on security as it does camera filters (which is less than making sure they can push advertising to you).
NSO has begun exploiting vulnerabilities in Apple’s iMessage software, giving it backdoor access to hundreds of millions of iPhones.
Amnesty’s lab has discovered traces of successful attacks by Pegasus customers on iPhones running up-to-date versions of Apple’s iOS. The attacks were carried out as recently as July 2021.
There is no safe harbor.
I’ve contemplated getting a dumb flip phone – the thing I’d miss the most is Google Maps / navigation and a readily available browser.
I’ve contemplated getting a dumb flip phone – the thing I’d miss the most is Google Maps / navigation and a readily available browser.
I’m still waffling because of this. If did not have a forty mile commute through Shitlanta, I’d do it in a heartbeat. I may do the Garmin option though.
My flip phone has a browser and can do maps (not turn by turn directions), and can act as a hotspot for my unregistered ‘smart phone’ that doesn’t hold much useful data.
Sage advice from Nick Lowe
Glad to hear that you guys had a bunch of fun, Sloop! Welcome back!
The Daily Wire, received more likes, shares and comments on Facebook than any other news publisher by a wide margin.
It’s the Fox News factor. I can find a dozen outlets permitted on Facebook that will give me the leftist slant on the news. Daily Wire is one of the few major Facebook-approved outlets giving me a right-of-center take on the news. If conservatives and liberals make up roughly the same portion of the market, one site pushing conservative takes is going to beat any of a dozen pushing progressive takes.
“We only have two choices, we are either going to get vaccinated and end the pandemic or we are going to accept death, a lot of it, this surge and another surge and possibly another variant,” infectious disease specialist Dr. Catherine O’Neal said during a state COVID-19 press briefing Friday.
Okay, Chicken Little.
I’m almost inclined to wonder, would the likes of Dr. O’Neal accept legal financial liability as the price of imposing their preferences? Okay, you can force everyone to get vaccinated. But, you have to accept the possibility of being sued into the poorhouse if something goes wrong.
LOL. The taxpayer is liable. That’s why the insistence on calling this a “vaccine”. No big pharmaceutical company would dare distribute this stuff so widely without years of testing without that government-granted protection. And in order to grant that protection, we have to pretend there are no treatment options.
I’ve seen multiple people scream that vaccines naysayers should bear responsibility for the deaths that will occur from COVID, it’s only fair that the proponents should face the same consequences.
Although I’ll say this, if someone attempts to force my kids to get vaccinated, they will be personally bearing liability of a particular sort.
Public health experts are the worst kind of tyrants. They get to play god with the vast nameless and faceless masses while holding no responsibility for anything that goes wrong.
The always solid Sebastian Rushworth turns his sights on Big Pharma:
Do drug trials underestimate side effects?
Spoiler: Fuck yes, they do.
The Medical Industrial Complex is officially more dangerous than the Military Industrial Complex.
They’re related. They have been for quite some time. As some lunatic noted in a book on the subject, there are hundreds of billions of dollars at stake in mandatory vaccinations for the public.
In the late 90s, the DoD machinery stumbled onto this and the Joint Vaccination Acquisition Program (JVAP) was born. In the late 90s, they were already planning for JBP (Joint Biologics Project) 2020. It’s 2020 and… voila!
Holy shit, look at that. We have a need to vaccinate the entire US pop- no, wait, the entire planet. I wonder how much that could be worth? Would it be worth enough to buy off some politicians and health officials? Oh wait, OMB provides the perfect setup to get the screeching harpies on the Left entirely in line with it AND we can tie it to “systemic racism” as well? Oh, what a fucking grift.
Brandi Love should be celebrated for helping the party pitch a bigger tent in their pants.
Doomsday cultists BELIEVE
As a mask mandate falls upon Los Angeles County once again this weekend, some residents say it’s unnecessary and intrusive, while others are feeling relieved as local cases rise.
“It’s overdue, I’m glad they did that,” said Mike McHargue, a resident of La Crescenta-Montrose, a city about 15 miles north of downtown L.A.
“There’s no way to do that partial mask mandate, people are going to not get vaccinated. We’re gonna have to wear masks for years,” he said.
McHargue’s family, including two teens, spent the last year and a half protecting themselves from the virus. They isolated themselves. They wore masks when outside. And they got both doses of the Moderna vaccine. The family took a celebratory trip to Disneyland, where they continued to wear masks despite the park dropping its mask mandate for vaccinated people after California state officials did the same.
It was on this trip, McHargue believes, that he and his wife contracted COVID-19. He is now 12 days into symptoms, which would have likely been much more severe if he weren’t vaccinated. The vast majority — 99.5 percent — of U.S. COVID-19 deaths are among unvaccinated people.
“I have very little doubt I’d probably be on a ventilator if I wasn’t vaccinated and my wife wasn’t vaxxed. She had a very mild case. The vaccines do offer protection for the worst outcome,” said McHargue, who hosts a weekly science podcast.
Symptoms. What symptoms, specifically?
And when cases continue to rise regardless, no conclusions will be reached.
There were a lot of docs saying that vaccinating during a pandemic is retarded. They say that it encourages more rapid mutation.
Go figure.
Exactly. This was predicted. Mass vaccinating during a pandemic puts evolutionary selection pressure on the virus.
Now it’s happening and everybody is blaming those who didn’t get vaccinated.
I despise our credentialed class at this point. Their complete lack of ethics and integrity is beyond anything I could have imagined.
Good for you.
Now kindly fuck off, Karen.
where are the scare quotes when you need em?
He was a hall monitor when he was in school. You know the Vichy students.
“ Five things that are cheaper now than before the pandemic”
*checks gas prices*
Interesting…now go fuck yourselves.
*checks meat prices*
*faints*
*checks prices on everything else not on that list*
/looks to see that the local bike shops still can’t get stock in
Supply chains are so screwed. Wife has a favorite clipper that is currently on some insane 1 year back order waiting list.
From the company we buy windows from:
12-16 week lead times.
Plus – a cyber attack on a glass company, WTF?
Windows has always been more vulnerable. Maybe try an apple farm, instead?
RE: Brandi Love.
https://archive.li/5Q34P/1928e879b55db962372d9fb2563b24019eb0e490.avif
GAH! That seems like a pretty rough 48.
Also: lots of vinegaroons when I was growing up in NM, they look terrifying but they’re not all bad. Not aggressive to humans and they’ll kill other baddies and pests like roaches and black widows.
She’s a porn star guy, the mere fact that she’s still alive and not in a casket somewhere means she looks better than most of her peers at that age.
Add some softer lighting and tequila.
Meh. At my age, after a couple Tall Cans™ and a blue pill, Id likely say, “why not?”
Opah fish isn’t bad. Similar texture to tuna but a little more mild flavor if I remember right.
Voluptuous, voluminous vixens of bra-busting, bathykolpian proportions on Mammary Monday.
https://archive.li/oVHlF
3 is my kind of doctor
Isn’t a vinegaroon a scorpion?
I don’t know, as the article was written by a person with a journalism degree, so there really isn’t any information there.
Commonly called a “whip scorpion” but if I remember correctly it isn’t actually a scorpion at all. Another one of those “common usage” things where we make our kids just a little bit stupider because we can’t be bothered to call something what it really is. Like, a “starfish” not being a fish al all.
Or using “racist” or “sexist” or “misogynist” when the correct term is “free thinker”.
“Chicago continues its downward spiral. Please get out of there if you can. And yes, Swissy, this means you.”
I don’t live in Chicago.
Chicagoland.
Illinois.
The Brandi Love article doesn’t make it clear if she was an invited guest or someone who paid to be a ‘guest’. If she was invited, the reaction is ridickulous. If she was paying so she could play some gotcha game and leak that she was there, the reaction makes sense. If she’s actually conservative also wasn’t addressed, which would give us an idea of what the scenario actually was.
I read that she paid her own money and registered with her real name. Who knows for sure?
It was a dumb move by the organizers, unless they wanted publicity…
Having performed a cursory review of her “body” of work on some other sites, I retract my reply in comment #28.
What specifically was the determining factor of her failure to meet your standard for a drunken Viagra fest?
Too skinny.
if she’s actually conservative….
To me, that’s the overwhelmingly key point that wasn’t addressed. If she was there in good faith, welcome to the club! If she’s there to make fun of all the dumb conservatives who don’t know who she is, toss her out on her ear (with refund, of course).
A quick search shows her to be a Trump supporter but she absolutely did this as a publicity stunt. They should have let her speak anyway with someone poised to cut the mic but the conservative alienation of allies is just stupid.
And Trump supported (canoodled with, whatever) at least one porn star.
She might need to shake it out first.
Her notice of ejection, you know when she got bounced, sates that her invitation was revoked. The christian conservatives voiced objections. Dumb as rocks these people. Jesus, God’s personal gardener, himself liked to hang out with a whore, if I remember correctly.
Jesus went to a Centurion’s house and healed his servant. He certainly didn’t agree with his life choices but he recognized his humanity and acted accordingly, and in the face of public approbation I might add.
Point being that Jesus’s general stance was to accepting of sinners, not to expel them because you fear they are contagious.
Jesus actually remote-healed the servant. He interacted with gentiles but I don’t think it went further than that until Peter went to Cornelius the Centurion in Acts.
The notice says “If you have confirmed and/or paid to be a guest…”
This is why the Republican party will always be the fake opposition party. Truly the party of Stoooopid. (and evil)
Constantly snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Mary Magdalen being the prostitute of the stoning is apocrypha, but yes, calm tits, indeed.
I’ve seen multiple people scream that vaccines naysayers should bear responsibility for the deaths that will occur from COVID, it’s only fair that the proponents should face the same consequences.
This gets me to thinking about a new form of government – dollar democracy. Basically, the underlying idea would be that any form of government action would need to be voted on. However, a vote in favor of government action accrues legal and financial liability to you.
Democracy is just an appeal to the baser instincts of morons and is a failed experiment that will eventually eat itself no matter what you do.
This line of attack just might work to get our (purely evil) teacher’s union to back down. We should require that the union itself accept all responsibility for and ill effects on any child they forced to get the jab. They get sued for every kid who has even the slightest reaction. Not the school district, not the local government, the fucking union who is forcing the issue.
The people demanding government solve all problems do so specifically because they believe or want OTHER PEOPLE to pay for the solution. That’s also why the problems, and thus the solutions to those problems, tend to always be misdiagnosed. After all, it ain’t their money being pissed away in their minds: it’s yours..
It’s a slaughterhouse
Criticism is mounting on Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his government for the decision to go ahead with the lifting of Covid-19 restrictions in England this week, with the world now watching to see which direction the country’s health crisis goes next.
From Monday, there will be no more limits on indoor gathering which means that nightclubs can reopen and bars and pubs will no longer have to provide only a table-only service.
In addition, the 1-meter social distancing rule has been removed and face masks have become largely voluntary, although some airlines and transport companies have said they will retain mask-wearing requirements.
The fanfare around a day previously touted as “Freedom Day” has been muted from the government, however, as it comes amid a surge in Covid infections caused by the delta variant. The government has urged caution and for people to take a sense of personal responsibility when it comes to their newly regained freedoms.
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Cases remain high across the U.K. with 316,691 cases reported over the last seven days, up around 43% from the previous seven-day period. Hospitalizations are low but are creeping higher, with 4,313 people admitted to hospital in the last seven days, government data shows. In the last seven days, 283 people have died.
The lifting of restrictions has drawn criticism from many medical experts and opposition politicians amid concerns that hospitalizations and deaths, while relatively low for now, could quickly rise if cases increase further.
Bodies heaped on every street corner. Nothing but the overpowering stench of death.
Or possibly not.
Hard to believe these are the same stock that kept a stiff upper lip during The Blitz. It’s just so pathetic.
The ‘cases’ are rising with masks in place…so they need to keep the masks?
we don’t know much about this species of fish, but it’s surely Climate Catastrophe what brought it ta these here parts, mhm.
Looks like global warming makes it happy.
There’s always been something fishy about global warming.
I like the photo of the van in the abc link.
I know it says Covid Testing, but changing it up: [Covid Existing] Covisting.
This where the majority are right now. Sad. TMITE
“I don’t agree with everything you say, and I’ll be goddammed if I’ll allow you to say it.”
“You don’t agree with anything I say, so shut the fuck up.”
“I don’t agree with anything you say, and I will fight to the death to stop you from saying it.”
The ‘cases’ are rising with masks in place…so they need to keep the masks?
But without masks, it would be unimagineably worse!
Just look at my model.
Your model not only predicts COVID deaths, but global warming, too!
I’m beginning to think the primary symptom of the snifflecooties is vaginitis.
Everybody being tested all the time blows this out of proportion, so no way to compare it to historical data. I’ve never once in my life been tested for the flu. Maybe I’ve never actually had it, maybe I’ve had it more times than I thought I did.
My little brother got tested for Covid at least 3 times, and I don’t believe he’s ever been tested for the flu before either.
More from that MSNBC business channel link:
“We want our freedoms back, of course we all want them back, but we have to be sensible. I’m particularly worried about clinically vulnerable people, the fact that the government isn’t making mask-wearing on public transport mandatory means that many of these clinically vulnerable people won’t be able to have any freedom at all … because they won’t feel safe on public transport,” he said.
There you have it. Case closed.
We must take away your freedoms, turn you into drones that follow the state’s command without question, and we have to do this for YOUR own safety and survival…
Know what we mean?
/the tyrannical nanny state
All I see is inept and dangerously stupid credentialed elite class of assholes trying desperately to create a system where the serfs can’t question or threaten their hereditary credentialed elite racket..
Trump broke the globalist movement. Not just in the US, mind you…
That’s just what we’re being told the reason is. All the numbers were in on this when it first started and, amazingly, the numbers have borne out. The real reason for all the panic is how much they enjoy all of the ill gotten gains they’ve made because of their seizing of this crisis. They took the white house against one of the most successful first term Republican presidents ever. That’s really something. All by using a fairly minor virus to cheat. They’re gonna milk it to death.
I’m willing to concede that a lot of the early panic was because they knew it came from a lab (while simultaneously denying it), and therefore a lot of it was unknown. But at this point we know pretty much all there is to know about it.
Rational and reasoning people know pretty much all there is to know about it. The manic panicked? I have a few friends and their line is always “we still don’t know what it will do to us!” In which I ask about the vaccine and its all crickets.
They told us about the comorbitity aspect, the percentages of how many might die, the fact that young and healthy people would be fine, basically all the percentages they gave us are borne out by inflated numbers they now hold up. Nothing has been a surprise. Even the timing pretty closely matches historical Flu pandemics. We knew what was going to happen back in March of 2020. And it happened, almost exactly as they said, regardless of the knee jerk reactions. This smacks of a crisis being not allowed to go to waste.
It’s humorous that they think their shitty mask is protecting them or anybody else.
I thought that mandatory mask-wearing on public transport was Biden’s first EO?
I think it can only be enforced on interstate transportation.
Perhaps. His order seems to claim otherwise. Anyway it’s been mandatory here for a year and a half.
Not that anyone says anything to the crazy bums and other assorted riff-raff who don’t comply.
‘Clinically vulnerable’
Been a problem from day one. Bunch of people who were actually at risk who wanted everyone else to adjust lifestyles so the vulnerable could do what they wanted.
Had a friend of ours who was livid last year because people weren’t following mask rules which meant it was risky for him to go to Whole Foods.
“I’m fat and I’m going to die because of your poor choices.”
Pretty much a lot of this…
I don’t want to have to be a hermit for the rest of my life, so humanity should gladly take it up the ass to accommodate the fact I don’t want to change my ways nor inconvenience me with it’s insistence on getting along with life..
TBF: this guy does have some underlying health issues that made him more vulnerable to c19. But, Whole Foods has curbside, his wife did not have health issues, he has friends who would have been happy to pick stuff up for him. But, no, healthy young people have to mask up so he would feel safe shopping.
And, bigger picture, TBF, he & his wife are very nice, generous people and we continue to be friends with him. But they are definitely in the large group of people whose brains were broken by Trump.
wut
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/15627779/boyfriend-watches-sex-tapes-him-exes-next-to-me/
Kinky shizz…
Translation, “My boyfriend isn’t sexually attracted to me, but I have money so he hangs around”
Yup. Two years? Figure it out Sugar Mama.
Maybe ZARDOZ needs to go head to head with Deirdre. Sounds like she could use some training.
That was an episode of Black Mirror
Which one? I must have been drunk.
Some first season one. The one where everyone could record what they were seeing. Except in that episode, both of the people were having sex while watching themselves fucking other people.
That was a tremendously sex-negative show.
“The Entire History of You”. Got it. I vaguely remember it now. My “Grain” has only about 32MB of memory apparently.
Essentially, “I snoop all over my boyfriends stuff and don’t like what he does” . . Maybe this isn’t a healthy relationship.
Yeah, – “While going through his laptop, searching for a particular holiday photo,”
Surrree
Welcome back, good to hear you had such a good time. I complain about Disney, but I am a lifelong Disney nerd too. Over Thanksgiving, I will turn 50, and this year is the 50th anniversary of Disney World. We have an epic trip planned with 28 of us so far.
*quietly looks around and sees there are..others* Yeah I grew up in SoCal. We would get season passes in the 90s as our afternoon hangout after going to the beach or after school. I enjoy it, my kids enjoyed it. It is just too damn busy and the only way we go now is if my niece or nephew throw us some free tickets.
The girlfriend is a fan as well. She keeps trying to convince me to go to California to see it. She doesn’t quiet grasp that I don’t want to spend time or money in California at the present time.
Too small and limited versus Orlando, I hear, unless one wanted to go to Knott’s Berry Farm too.
The addition of California Land or whatever it is called helped…especially the alcohol you can buy on that side.
The Rep. Thompson story in Minnesoda keeps getting better and better.
After the media started trying to figure out exactly where Thompson lives (in his district or not), they discovered that he had six domestic abuse violations. That finally got the DFL leadership to call for his resignation.
The latest twist is that Thompson (through his attorney) is claiming the police reports were doctored by police.
None of this would have come to light if Thompson had simply paid his citation for not having a front license plate. But no, he had to get on camera and claim he got the ticket because of racial profiling.
The left will definitely go to bat for terrible people as long as they prove to be useful. This guy vastly overestimated his usefulness.
In Thompson’s defense, the media knew about the domestic assault allegations before the election and didn’t make an issue out of them. And he led a mob out to a suburb where he threatened to burn the neighborhood down (on a bullhorn).
He got away with that bullshit, why wouldn’t he think he could continue being an asshole and get away with it?
El oh el.
Comeuppance it is.
After all she’s been through, she still can’t keep her mouth shut!
After all she’s been through, she still can’t keep her mouth shut!
This is what I call “Social Justice”…
Hock that dreck to the masses, get caught grifting, and now earn some nice prizes!
It’s humorous that they think their shitty mask is protecting them or anybody else.
Pigeon superstition.
Mumbo jumbo.
They want to BELIEVE.
Ritualistic behavior to provide an illusory external locus of control is a powerful motivator that’s hard to overcome.
Internal I meant.
A quick search shows her to be a Trump supporter but she absolutely did this as a publicity stunt.
Then removing her was stupid. Sure, it was a publicity stunt on her part. But, that’s no reason conservatives couldn’t have used her as their own publicity stunt. What better publicity for the right would there have been than a porn star tweeting about how all the conservatives were nice and friendly to her and treated her like just another person trying to make America great again. Especially if her comments triggered the left into trashing her.
It’s just another unfortunate reminder that many conservatives aren’t anti-exclusion and anti-censorship, they’re just anti those on condition of topic.
I’m too lazy to look it up, but I think she wrote an op-Ed not long after the election wherein she said she voted for Biden but was now really worried that a Biden-Harris administration would try to shut down the porn industry.
I do have a very high sex drive and my boyfriend knows this, but he regularly turns me down when I want to make love.
Try putting the knife and fork down
“Selfishly we give our germs to everyone else” – Some manager on the meeting I am on.
This person at our work popped positive but the kicker is the guy came to work with symptoms. We give very copious amounts of sick leave but what the hell? Stay home you fucking dolt.
But what ARE the symptoms (that can’t also be something innocuous)? After more than a fucking year I’m still not sure.
Yeah Im calling BS on the COVID part. It is more of the “you get so much time off and you came to work sick?” The FAA will move on and planes will still fly if you don’t come to work for a couple of days.
I get sinus allergies, where crap runs down not just from my nose but also the ear canals, that runs down my throat and makes me cough. Every time I cough my boss says, ‘Are you getting sick on us?’ No, I’ve told you over a hundred times what is going on. The last time I had a fever was an ear infection, same sinus shit.
The last time I was actually sick? The year The Walking Dead season 1 ended. I remember because the 1st season was marathoning while I was drifting about about in a fever haze on the couch.
My company switched from sick days to PTO days more than a decade ago due to abuse by some areas of the company. Back in the good old days the basic attitude (in my division) was being sick meant you went to see your doctor. If you just feel bad, then come on in to work and feel bad with everyone else. There would be many days where half of my co-workers would have colds, coughs, etc. When we switched, people would still come to work sick because PTO was like an extra week of vacation. Why waste a vacation day when you can just do a half-assed day of work and keep the day. I’ve sent people home because of this.
We just switched this month that it’s all PTO, but even before sick days accrewed the same as vacation, so it didn’t make a lot of sense. But yeah, if calling in sick takes away my vacation days why would I do that?
I guess it feels different when it’s all PTO. I still have vacation and paid holidays. I always keep 5 days of PTO in case I get sick because it rolls over annually. Then I use it as a me day.
As a supervisor, not coming to work sick is also a safety issue. It’s not just stopping people from spreading disease. Also, we have a flexible work schedule which allows people to build extra off time whenever hourly overtime is available.
Been a problem from day one. Bunch of people who were actually at risk who wanted everyone else to adjust lifestyles so the vulnerable could do what they wanted.
Had a friend of ours who was livid last year because people weren’t following mask rules which meant it was risky for him to go to Whole Foods.
Instead of protecting the vulnerable and treating the sick, they went all in on punishing the healthy.
SCIENCE!
The urban planners are sure working hard to sell a tiny home project in Duluth.
Umm, I would like to know the median size of houses as well as the sale price. I’m pretty sure $200K for 500 sq feet is going to be on the high end.
This little factoid is also stuck in the bottom of that story:
I’m guessing that the community room, picnic area and fire pit will also be shared with the homeless. That $200K sounds like a better and better price.
Having spent 6 years living next to a growing homeless encampment I can’t say I recommend it. Especially buying into it, knowing full-well who your neighbors will be.
Someone needs TeeVee show dealing with Hobo life neighborhoods…
Real Neighbors of the Hobos of Duluth sounds like a rocking show..
Actual hobo
Lessee…quick math…$400 per square foot. I’ll pass.
Funny you mention this.. was discussing just this item yesterday and pointed out that @ $200K for 500 sq feet that would have to be some real special low income housing since the person that brought this article to my attention claimed that’s what this was about….
1lb. bag of flour regular price: $2
3lb. bag of flour on sale: $2
They’re the same price!!!!
Per square foot, the units will be costlier than most homes for sale in the area, but traditionally built new homes are typically far more expensive.
Go ahead and waste your money on a “traditionally built” home and pay a lot more like a sucker! Sure that traditionally built home is going to be 5 or 6 times bigger…
I’ll be paying less than $50k for my new house with a couple hunnert sq ft. And I’ll be mobile.
$200k for 400 sq ft is DC/NYC-level prices
You cannot build “affordable” new housing, at least not affordable to anyone near the bottom rung.
We used to understand this.
That why poor people used to live in old housing until the government throw many of them into public housing and now people think the private market can do the same thing. Except… now the public housing is falling down and the billions of dollars that was supposed to be spent on repairs was instead pissed away on pubsec workers’ vacations and boats.
My parent’s first house was 500sq/ft, and while small it was a two and one with room for my brother and I.
Speaking of mumbo jumbo
A new, highly anticipated report from the leading association of pollsters confirms just how wrong the 2020 election polls were. But nine months after that closer-than-expected contest, the people asking why are still looking for answers.
National surveys of the 2020 presidential contest were the least accurate in 40 years, while the state polls were the worst in at least two decades, according to the new, comprehensive report from the American Association for Public Opinion Research.
But unlike 2016, when pollsters could pinpoint factors like the education divide as reasons they underestimated Donald Trump and offer specific recommendations to fix the problem, the authors of the new American Association for Public Opinion Research report couldn’t put their finger on the exact problem they face now. Instead, they’ve stuck to rejecting the idea that they made the same mistakes as before, while pointing to possible new reasons for inaccuracy.
“We could rule some things out, but it’s hard to prove beyond a certainty what happened,” said Josh Clinton, a professor at Vanderbilt University and the chair of the association’s 2020 election task force. “Based on what we know about polling, what we know about politics, we have some good prime suspects as to what may be going on.”
Those “prime suspects” will hardly be comforting to pollsters and those who depend on them, from political campaigns to the news media. The most likely — if far from certain — culprit for off-kilter polling results is that key groups of people don’t answer polls in the first place.
Decreasing response rates have been a major source of concern for pollsters for more than a decade. But the politicization of polling during the Trump era — including the feedback loop from the former president, who has falsely decried poll results he doesn’t like as “fake” or deliberately aimed at suppressing enthusiasm for answering polls among GOP voters — appears to be skewing the results, with some segment of Republicans refusing to participate in surveys.
Maybe you just suck.
I have a few “prime suspects” as to why the outcome was surprising, myself.
“But nine months after that closer-than-expected contest, the people asking why are still looking for answers.”
Must have been massive vote fraud, right? Maybe we need to do some thorough audits.
“who has falsely decried poll results he doesn’t like as ‘fake'”
Falsely? Your polls are total bullshit. So they’re either fake or your entire profession is utterly and completely incompetent. I guess you’re admitting you have no fucking idea what you’re doing and would be better suited for a job as the guy holding the “Slow” sign in construction zones.
Aside to Ghostpatzer: Finally caught a moment to listen to the Tito you linked for me near the end of the last post’s comments. Had me mamboing in my office. Sadly, my dancing skills are part of what led me to take up drumming.
Now I want timbales.
One needs no skills to dance, just spirit and attitude. Which is how I acquired the moniker “Chicken Man” one summer long ago. Go get those timbales!
^^^ It took me 30 years and 2nd wife to say screw it and get up and enjoy myself.
Ahem….Sheila E. is no slouch either.
Yah, she can play a little 🙂
::dances off to mail room to empty interoffice bags::
Grass cut, just in case you’re keeping tabs.
Luckily, the neighbors on either side are more lazy than I am. Even at its worst, my yard still looks OK by comparison.
The one-bedroom units will be larger than a typical tiny home at 400 to 500 square feet and will share a community room, picnic area, fire pit and sweeping views of the harbor and Lake Superior. Each will stand alone and take a bit of creative engineering to accommodate the rocky hill.
At about $200,000 each
*goes to get towel for mopping up coffee off keyboard*
But, but, but you get fantastic views of Duluth’s harbor and Lake Superior!
“Gosh, we just can’t figure out why people aren’t willing to pay a premium for a tiny home surrounded by a homeless camp. It’s a total mystery.”
I’m sure the end game is to have the city step in and buy him out and turn it into some govt housing for the homeless.
Upon reading the article it sounds like the project is making concessions to clean up the displaced homeless camp. As in, this project is a burden to the homeless. Nice.
The noble savage. To save him is the white man’s burden.
“ ‘Havana Syndrome’ Strikes U.S. Diplomats In Vienna”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/havana-syndrome-strikes-us-diplomats-vienna
Freud had this figured out a century ago: it’s called hysteria.
Based on a recent conversation I had with someone who goes into State for business fairly often, State is currently overrun with morons, utterly unserious people who are more interested in showing off their newest sneakers (not kidding) than effective management and policy.
So what else is new?
He’s done business with them for almost two decades now, and he said this is easily the worst he’s ever seen it.
They’re ecstatic over the WFH rules and can’t understand why everyone else isn’t doing it too.
Which coincides with another snippet I heard from Jack Posobiec. He claims that that his former colleagues are telling him that because intelligence analysts are working from home and have limited access to secure intelligence resources, they’re quite often resorting to media like the WaPo as substitutes.
Ponder that on the tree of woe.
Again, this is nothing new. It may be particularly bad right at the moment, but the IC has been using TMITE to do their collections work for longer than I’ve been alive.
When I interned at the CIA twenty-odd years ago, almost every office had a TV tuned 24/7 to CNN, and ‘briefing the Times’ was an accepted way of doing make-work.
It is sneakers. Used to be wingtips.
that would have to be some real special low income housing since the person that brought this article to my attention claimed that’s what this was about….
Spoiler Alert: those poor people won’t be the ones picking up the tab.
Opah is a fantastic eating fish. I don’t know what all the “mystery” bullshit is about. Yeah, it is generally not found so north as Oregon, but sometimes fish go out of their traditional ranges, not necessarily global climate catastrophe causing a tasty fish to go 800 or so miles north of its usual northernmost range.
Ewwwww….
Oh, you said opah.
Oregon is home to the exploding whale!
Interesting to that’s one freaking fish that washed up on the shore and the jump to climate change is immediately made. Gotta make the claim before the opportunity’s lost apparently.
A rod for you , and a rod for you, and a rod…
It has really gotten to the point that every single article in the media is pushing the narrative and therefore suspect.
It’s journolist taken to its logical conclusion. The amazing thing is, they did it all by themselves. They didn’t need a repressive government to force them into propagandists, they’re just natural-born bootlickers.
“The writer, who often chronicles her dating adventures, has seen blokes’ ‘eyes glaze over’ when she talks to them about her job.”
If every single guy you date has that reaction, maybe you should try talking about your job less.
“blokes don’t like ‘bossy or outspoken’ women who ‘encroach on their masculinity'”
I don’t know anyone who particularly likes being bossed around. And if you’re bossy enough to admit you’re bossy…
“It would appear, from the outside, that many find it emasculating for a woman to kick ass in their career. Heaven forbid if she makes more money than them.”
I couldn’t care less how much a woman makes as long as she’s pleasant and fun to be around.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/men-can-feel-threatened-date-24547052
“Jana, a popular media personality in Australia, is baffled by “why” a lot of her successful friends are still single.”
Is it possible, just possible, that Jana comes across as a self-absorbed bitch?
Nobody in their right mind would want anything more than one night with bag o’ crazy.
I would love to be a stay at home dad. I need a sugar mama, but not one who is unpleasant.
I’ve found very high-income-earners generally to be not pleasant or fun. I’ve found them to be serious, focused, and intense. It does vary somewhat by profession (an actor or model who earns a lot has a different personality than a wealthy entrepreneur).
These are not necessarily bad traits if they’re compatible with your own.
That goes for men & women.
Shorter: “The dudes I’m into don’t like it when I make more than them, and I don’t like the kind of dudes who are okay with making less than me”
Change your standards or STFU.
She seems nice. Apparently she is not aware of this phenomenon.
She said: “I know they are out there. But where are they in the dating world?”
They married reasonable women after you turned them down because you could do better.
In general men are more willing to date women who make more money than women willing to date men who make less.
Just like men are more willing to date taller women than women shorter men.
That makes the problems with polling a lot harder to fix than the diagnosis four years ago, which mostly focused on adjusting surveys to account for Trump’s popularity with voters who haven’t earned college degrees and his corresponding weakness with college degree-holders.
“It seems plausible to the task force that, perhaps, the Republicans who are participating in our polls are different from those who are supporting Republican candidates who aren’t participating in our polls,” Clinton said. “But how do you prove that?”
Dizzying.
According to the report, national polls of the presidential race conducted in the final two weeks of the election were off by an average of 4.5 percentage points, while the state polls were off by just over 5 points. Most of the error was in one direction: Looking at the vote margin, the national polls were too favorable to now-President Joe Biden by 3.9 points, and the state polls were 4.3 points too favorable for Biden.
Most of the error came from underestimating Trump’s support, as opposed to overestimating Biden’s. Comparing the final election results to the poll numbers for each candidate, Trump’s support was understated by a whopping 3.3 points on average, while Biden’s was overstated by a point — turning what looked like a solid Biden lead into a closer, if still decisive, race.
It wasn’t just a Trump effect, either. The polls of Senate and governor’s races were off by an even greater margin: 6 points on average.
They seriously believed that BLUE WAVE nonsense. Because that’s what they wanted to happen. The Great Repudiation.
Tough luck, clowns.
Polling data was wrong, or was it a lie. I’m going with lie, given the media did everything possible to throw the election(s) to the Democrats.
Overstating the Dem lead, in an effort to have GOP voters stay home (“What the heck, my guy is way behind. I’ll just stay home on election day.”) is Voter Suppression the Left can get behind.
But it’s not RACIST Voter Suppression, because only White Supremacists vote for Them.
“Whycome the Trumptards won’t tell us they are voting for the Drumpf?!?!”
*Whycome these far-right white supremacists inbred hicks tell us that they are far-right white supremacists inbred hicks?
FIFY
Speaking of “tiny houses”-
One of the places I looked at last spring featured a “guest house” which looked for all the world like a giant garden shed. The footprint was probably 15 x 25 or so, with a partial sleeping loft. Probably pretty close to 500 square feet, I’d guess. It had a certain utilitarian charm, but if you told me I’d have to pay $200k for it, with a lot barely as big as a parking space, I’d start throwing rocks at you.
This is the kind of shit they always come up with for ‘affordable housing’ projects, buy half what you want for 5x the price. If we built pole buildings with tiny rooms with beds we could solve lots of this, but that wouldn’t pass ‘code’, so people just gotta stay homeless.
MInneapolis – no, really – almost did something smart in regards to this. They are considering new ordinances that would override the old ordinances that banned Boarding/Rooming houses in the city. (Of course, they can’t just repeal the old ordinances, that is crazy talk)
Unfortunately, they fucked it up with their reflexive hostility to private industry.
His fear is slum lords would make slum housing too grandiose?
Time for me to watch today’s video on the Happiest Channel on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAJ3-QecfSg
Dogs are always jumping on balls, cats are always trying to rub up against me. Stop it! If wanted that I’d be at the ‘message parlor’!
Using peanut butter may get you the happy ending you seek. At least that is what I hear.
If anything else, you’ll be squeaky clean.
What if one of the dogs mistakes his testicles as a squeaky toy?
Just wrote down that if I ever need to have a testicle removed, I want the prosthetic ball to squeak.
Is that going in your advance directive?
He’s going to wear a wristband, like a DNR.
Gun Glibs – .34 per (shipped & taxed) for Winchester 9mm brass 115g.
Best deal we’re gonna see for a while or should I chill for a bit longer?
If you’re low on 9, that’s a great deal.
Inspect it before you shoot it, though. Olin’s QC wasn’t great before the ammo drought, and I doubt that it’s gotten better…
Would you go with the Win brass or Blazer aluminum for .28/per?
I’m just feeling itchy. I haven’t bought much since last summer and the chatter about supply lines up top got me thinking.
I reload, so I would go with the brass.
Inspect it before shooting it regardless.
1k of WWB and 1k of American Eagle 124g.
Avgeraged .33/per, as ordering 10 of the 100 count WWB came out cheaper than a single 1k. Weird.
I feel much better now.
NIA LYNN Collection 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvrmLwAnqIo
em>Gordon said he fears for-profit SRO operators would worry less about stable, low-barrier housing options for Minneapolis residents and more about making a buck. “I tend to think of the worst-case scenario sometimes,” said Gordon. “I represent all around the University of Minnesota and I could just see some developer deciding that they are going to make a luxury, state-of-the-art rooming house and make a fortune and charge $2,000 a room and put a rooftop garden on it and put a pool somewhere.”
Oh, the humanity!
*Wouldn’t that put them in direct competition with places like the dorms at the University of Michigan and Michigan State.? We couldn’t allow that, could we Shirley?
Cue: “Where did this housing shortage come from?!?” in 5… 4… 3…
Michigan?
Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Yikes!
That makes the “weigh half again as much” a little more . . . challenging. Weirdly, that site does not have info on the average weight of men. Fortunately, https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320917#average-weight-of-men-in-the-us, or around 50 pounds short of half again as much as women.
Looks like Gov. Abbot is going to implement the Dean Plan for the walker-outers (TW: TWitter): keep the lege in special session more or less continuously until they crack and come back to TX. Where, one can hope, they will be met at the airport and hauled to the capitol under guard. Preferably with masks on, as they seem an unclean bunch.